Senior Bid Manager

Babcock International Group; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Babcock International Group is seeking a Senior Bid Manager to join its Land Future Business Team. The role entails managing bid strategies and leading multi-functional teams to secure business opportunities, with flexible hybrid working arrangements. Candidates should have proven bid management experience and relevant qualifications, contributing to Babcock's mission of creating a safe and secure world.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading benefits

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Employee assistance programme for well-being

Qualifications

• Experience in leading business winning methodologies on major bids.
• Understanding of managing capture phase of opportunities.
• Experience in line management and multi-functional team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own application of Business Winning Methodology for specific bids.
• Develop and ensure quality of business winning outputs.
• Line management of Bid Managers and Bid Coordinators.

Skills

Bid Management

Project Management

Financial Awareness

Leadership

Education

Educated to degree level

Shipley/APMP qualification

Job description

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Job Title: Senior Bid Manager

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF64823

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Bid Manager.

Job Title: Senior Bid Manager

Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF64823

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Bid Manager.

The role

As a Senior Bid Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be part of the Land Future Business Team, assisting the Bid Management Lead in ensuring high quality implementation of the end-to-end Business Winning Methodology across the sector.

Day-to-day, you’ll collaborate with customer facing opportunity owners to design and implement effective business-winning programs, ensuring bid teams are properly resourced to execute plans successfully. You’ll also:

• Own the application of the Business Winning Methodology for specific bids and/or portfolios, working closely with other functional leads to integrate the inputs/outputs of a range of different professional skills and competencies to develop quality business winning outputs
• Take the lead in developing and ensuring quality of business winning functional outputs, including bid strategies, competitive assessments, win strategies, and value propositions that differentiate Babcock’s offering/proposal from the competition
• Drive the development of the technical, commercial and financial solution that are compliant with/deliver client requirements and reflect the business strategy
• Line management of Bid Managers and Bid Coordinators
• Drive objective analysis and decision making throughout all bid activity to ensure customer influencing, propositions, and solutions developed provide the best chance of meeting the customer’s needs and winning
  
  
  

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office/onsite and days working from home.

Essential Experience Of The Senior Bid Manager

• Business winning professional with experience in leading the application of recognised business winning methodologies on major bids
• Understanding and experience of managing the capture phase of opportunities, including producing quality capture outputs
• Strong bid/project management experience
• Experience of Line Management and can motivate and lead multi-functional teams
• Strong financial and commercial awareness an experience of business winning within service-based industries
  
  
  

Qualifications For The Senior Bid Manager

• Educated to degree level
• Shipley/APMP qualification
  
  
  

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What We Offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
  
  
  

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 25/06/2025

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Business Development

• Industries

  Defense and Space Manufacturing

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